
Urban Design and Planning
Everyday environments play an important role in peoples' health and wellbeing. More than 25% of health outcomes can be explained with where people live. Positive resources such as adequate housing or quality green spaces and negative 'stressors' such as noise and air pollution are unequally distributed across the city. As a result, life expectancy varies by up to 8 years between neighbourhoods in German cities. Urban health inequity has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and is likely to increase in the coming post-pandemic years. The Chair of Urban Design and Planning develops innovative approaches in people-centred urban design. Our goal is to inform and help steer the much-needed transformation towards more inclusive and healthy cities. Our research delivers new empiric data on the connections between urban design and mental health, develops design strategies and recommendations for cities to integrate Design for All in urban development or informs transformation processes with theoretical concepts and new digital tools. Our research has been supported within the Heisenberg Program by the German Research Association (DFG) since 2021.
Lanqing Gu M.Arch.
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr.-Ing. Gladys Vásquez Fauggier M.Sc.
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr.-Ing. Lakshya Pandit M.Tech.
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr.-Ing. Marianne Halblaub Miranda
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Petra Schäfer, Leiterin der Fachgruppe Neue Mobilität, FRA UAS
Dr.-Ing. Chen Siqi M.A.
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr.-Ing. Lena Reiß
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff, Design and Urban Development (EST)
Co-speaker: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr.-Ing. Anshika Suri
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff, Design and Urban Development (EST)
Co-speaker: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr.-Ing. Erika Astuti
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff, Design and Urban Development (EST)
Co-speaker: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr.-Ing. Tim Dutz
at Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. habil. Ralf Steinmetz, Multimedia Communication Lab (KOM)
Second supervisors: Dr. Stefan Göbel and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr.-Ing. Christian Seemann
Thesis supervisor and speaker: Prof. Dr-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff, Design and Urban Development (EST)
Second supervisor: Prof. Alex Wall, TH Karlsruhe
Co-speaker: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Dr. phil. Susanne Bartels
at Department of Human Sciences, TU Darmstadt
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Vogt, Research group Work and Engineering Psychology
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Höger, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Member of the examining board: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll